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Dedication to offspring takes many forms in the animal kingdom, but few compare to what happens in the deep sea. Elephant mothers carry their calves for nearly two years, and penguin fathers endure ...

Two miles below the ocean surface off Monterey, California, warm water percolates from the seafloor at the base of an underwater mountain. It’s a magical place, especially if you’re an octopus. We now ...

Deep-sea octopuses are typically solitary creatures that inhabit frigid waters in one of Earth’s most challenging environments. The 2018 discovery of thousands of the eight-legged cephalopods about 2 ...